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Cosmetic operations and Khovanov multicurves

Geometric Topology 2024-07-04 v1 Quantum Algebra Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

We prove an equivariant version of the Cosmetic Surgery Conjecture for strongly invertible knots. Our proof combines a recent result of Hanselman with the Khovanov multicurve invariants Kh~\widetilde{\operatorname{Kh}} and BN~\widetilde{\operatorname{BN}}. We apply the same techniques to reprove a result of Wang about the Cosmetic Crossing Conjecture and split links. Along the way, we show that Kh~\widetilde{\operatorname{Kh}} and BN~\widetilde{\operatorname{BN}} detect if a Conway tangle is split.

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@article{arxiv.2109.14049,
  title  = {Cosmetic operations and Khovanov multicurves},
  author = {Artem Kotelskiy and Tye Lidman and Allison H. Moore and Liam Watson and Claudius Zibrowius},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.14049},
  year   = {2024}
}

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20 pages, 11 color figures created with PSTricks and Inkscape. Comments welcome!

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